Sitemap - 2025 - Cultured. North East

Ancient axe stuns detectorist

New voices, old treasures: Museum reimagines 250 years of history

Winners of Northern Writers’ Awards 2025 revealed

REVIEW: The Last Laugh, Theatre Royal

Curated Culture 24.06.25

Last chance to see stirring paintings by Sheila Fell

Review: Hamilton, Sunderland Empire

REVIEW: Carrying David, Newcastle Theatre Royal

Culture Digest 21.06.25

Danny Boyle hails the North East as 'magic' setting at 28 Years Later gala screening

Masala Festival promises a cultural heatwave

Beatles auction finds are fab

Baltic exhibition gets to the root of the matter

REVIEW: HARD, Laurels Theatre, Whitley Bay

Show number two announced by Horden's Ensemble '84

What comedy legend did for me and my career

Cast announced for Miss Saigon, opening in Newcastle

Sleaford Mods frontman joins radical new show at Live Theatre

£30k appeal takes flight to save Northumberland’s ospreys

Curated Culture 17.06.25

Culture Digest 14.06.25

Val McDermid to lead Gordon Burn Prize judging panel

Durham Brass Festival expands 2025 line-up

Tyneside Cinema names new chair and board as it looks to the future

The Story celebrates a year of heritage, history and milestones

Bronze Age finds hint at ancient ritual site

Future of iconic Northumberland estate in spotlight

From set life to storytelling with Larry Lamb

Howay the Lad ! Sam Fender kicks off three-night St James' residency

Why Carrying David is about so much more than boxing

A bit of sauce on the way in Whitley Bay

REVIEW: Steel Magnolias, People's Theatre, Newcastle

Sting steps in to launch urgent Baltic campaign

Curated Culture 10.06.25

Lindisfarne Festival saved as founder returns to lead 10th Anniversary

Josie on her North East leap into the unknown

Craft in the city

Imagining new futures for the flyover

Culture Digest 06.06.25

Events programme for Magna Carta 800th anniversary unveiled

Mega find at Magna: giant footprint of the past

Sand Martins events week takes flight

Miners’ Picnic a chance for commemoration and fun

North Shields gallery honours local Plasticine inventor

Something for everyone in the Laing’s new exhibition

Plucky pit loco returns to North East tracks

River restoration to reshape Northumberland waterway

North East to roll out the red carpet for gala screening of 28 Years Later

Northern Stage announces a new chief executive

Goodbye to the North East Culture Partnership

Curated Culture 03.06.25

Review: & Juliet at Newcastle Theatre Royal

Twisting Ducks introduce audiences to Hi, I'm Charlie

A new voice for Dickens’ darkest bride

Culture Digest 30.05.25

Larry Lamb books a night at Tyneside Cinema

North East architecture shines in 2025 RIBA awards

North East dance film shortlisted for national award

Eric’s milestone concert season to end in style

X-Ray Vision: Northumbria unveils cutting-edge art scanner

WWT Washington at 50: A legacy in flight

The backbone of the arts: why artists must be at the heart of cultural funding

Young singing stars bring opera to The Fire Station

JADE heads home to headline BBC Proms in the North East

Fun-loving Whitley Bay summons carnival spirit

Curated Culture 27.05.25

All Change! New exhibition tracks how the railways transformed everyday life

Digging into Concrete Dreams

Region’s fiddlers prepare for toe-tapping festival gig

Life celebrates 25 years with a major new attraction

REVIEW: The Bench, Gala Durham and touring

Culture Digest 23.05.25

Heritage Lottery grant green lights new excavation effort

Bench honours couple’s century of service to Northumberland National Park

International folklore exhibition celebrates 60 years of cultural exchange

Eco-themed May half term announced at BALTIC

Northern Chords festival returns with a winsome threesome

Festival aims to unearth and nurture bold new North East voices

Mik's Coal Town photos on permanent display at Woodhorn

Textile artist Louise finally goes solo with pop-up show

REVIEW: Boys from the Blackstuff, Theatre Royal

Endangered Newcastle baths named among UK’s top ten at-risk buildings

Curated Culture 20.05.25

Morons under the hammer

Forum Cinema fundraiser success

Late Shows launch for arts centre Crowdfunder

REVIEW: Mother Courage and her Children, Horden, County Durham

Culture Digest 16.05.25

Summer tour for Four Seasons

Preview: Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area at ARC Stockton and Live Theatre

New play gives voice to Covid bereaved

Whisky meets history for double celebration at Ad Gefrin

Birdman Jim Moir – why he won’t be pigeonholed

A freshly-baked opportunity for Newcastle theatre makers

Art Deco church begins new chapter

A century of important bird watching

WWI locomotive and Belgian engine to star in North East steam events

Berwick buildings to get new life as creative spaces

Adele Sandé and Franz Ferdinand to launch Sunderland’s Year of Music

Former North East journalists launch debut crime novel featuring therapist sleuth

Review: Picture You Dead, Newcastle Theatre Royal

Dance City makes case that life begins at 40

Portraits with impact: Arcadea CIO and Debbie Todd at The Late Shows

Late Shows opens doors to exciting possibilities

Curated Culture 13.05.25

Why Jeff Brown's buzzing to be back on The Bench

Getting serious about comedy

Review: Blackbird in the Snow, Laurels Theatre

Culture Digest 09.05.25

Newcastle to host Mercury Music Prize 2025

Steph McGovern samples a life of crime

Restored British Legion standards go on show for VE Day 80

Stanhope Weekender plants roots with peatland pledge

Event will be instrument of celebration

Paddleboarding artist prepares for first solo show

The Gap by Scott Tyrrell

Meet the 'song detectorists' revising our understanding of music

The return of a show that defined a decade

Dance and nature unite in The Alnwick Garden

Curated Culture 07.05.25

Art and memory collide for powerful Miners' Strike exhibition

Adolescence's Owen Cooper stars in Sam Fender's latest video

REVIEW: Dogs on the Metro, Live Theatre

Sunderland in on the BBC Proms action

REVIEW: Sides, by Alex Joynes, People's Theatre, Newcastle

A tribute to poet and spoken word artist Sky Hawkins

New magazine champions working class writers

Culture Digest 02.05.25

Ghosts in Jesmond? Paranormal podcaster Danny Robins wants to hear from you

New bar to open at Theatre Royal

A new album and a new ensemble

Lumiere and New Writing North cited in new report

Arthur McKenzie’s Blackbird in the Snow finally lands on stage

Crucial lessons we should learn from Ancient Rome

Beamish shortlisted for top museum prize

Funding green lights gallery restoration at Tyne Theatre & Opera House

Project to uncover hidden WW2 histories

More creative support available for Sunderland venues

Theatre Royal seeks new trustees to help guide its next chapter

Toad of Crook Hall

West End writers in celebration spotlight

Curated Culture 29.04.25

With these hands: Laing exhibition celebrates the art of craft

The Battle for Britpop chart topper to play out at Newcastle Theatre Royal

Review: Public Record at The Fire Station, Sunderland

May is festival time in Jesmond

Celebrating the legacy of a folk legend

Historic hair under the hammer

Culture Digest 25.04.25

Recognition at last for football heroine

Lauren Laverne honoured at Music Producers Guild Awards

GIFT – Gateshead festival keeps on giving

Sousa extends stay, Wilson joins fold

The winning play now approaching...

Singer Nadedja brings the sunshine with new single

North East role in world first Gladiator battle find

Tuning in to the Toon’s Black music heyday

Floodplain revival to boosts river wildlife

North East talent brushing up for the BAFTAs - Part I

Drawing on Strength: Alnwick artist showcases landscapes and life

Memories in miniature: Vintage souvenir on show

REVIEW: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at Sunderland Empire

REVIEW: Ghost Stories at the Theatre Royal

Curated Culture 22.04.25

Six of the Hexham Book Fest best

Culture Digest 18.04.25

Pop star Jade assembles for unfiltered TV interview

Lit & Phil's anniversary writing challenge

Podcast series brings Tyne Derwent Way history to life

Oscar-winning writer joins Live's Unearthed Festival line-up

Fawlty Towers makes a double reservation with the North East

Ethel Smyth, composer, firebrand, suffragette

"If you’ve got a dream to work in the performing arts, we want to hear from you"

Lost medieval panel found in Hexham Abbey?

First osprey eggs laid at Kielder for Easter

Auction revives story of Jarrow’s gibbeted pitman

Newcastle nesting project takes flight

The engineer returns: Robert Stephenson statue pulls into Shildon

Newcastle teacher's Elizabethan thriller

Weeds gone so what now for Jesmond Dene landmark?

Behind the Curtain: Theatre Royal throws open its doors

Curated Culture 15.04.25

Culture Digest 11.04.25

Region bucks the national trend for starling sightings

Professor of Punk honoured

Tyneside team unearths evidence of a green Arabian desert

Ten million and counting: Baltic marks major milestone

Kate Adie archive opens in Sunderland

Old-school Easter Fun? Beamish has it in the basket

Hit play heads for Newcastle on first UK tour

Making music in the face of MND

Review: Manhunt, Royal Court Theatre

Exhibition recalls when Britain ruled the waves

Putting Sunderland on the Record

Twin painters share Baltic spotlight

Review: T*ts Up at Laurels Theatre, Whitley Bay

Curated Culture 08.04.25

Review: Songs of the North East, Consett Empire

Visualising the musical genius of Ravel

Yee-ha! Byker 'Western' hits the big screen

Culture Digest 05.04.25

Auction highlights a keen eye for art

Folio, folio, wherefore art thou folio?

Preview screening of The Feud is a friendly affair

Digging into the history of Arbeia

Late artist’s work to be auctioned

A tribute to John Fox of Welfare State

Snow White in Get Carter's footsteps

Meet the writers who aim to scare you silly

REVIEW: Goodnight Mister Tom, People’s Theatre, Newcastle

Curated Culture 01.04.25

Work of Tyneside photo artist goes to auction

Culture Digest 28.03.25

It's a deal!

The power of nature for recovery

Pit disaster centenary to be commemorated

Connecting through shared heritage

A new chapter starts for The Lindisfarne Story

Dance grants put a spring in the step

Celebrating 10 years since the Old Low Light got a new lease of life

Laughter and life stories in store at Laurels

Tickets on sale soon for Theatre Royal 2026 shows

Dalek, witch and Spiderman – new at the NGCA

Curated Culture 25.03.25

Revamped venue well worth a pilgrimage this spring

'An incredible once in a lifetime archaeological find'

Smoggie Queens gets a (very sparkly) green light for series two

Culture Digest 21.03.25

Tickets go on sale for Durham Brass 2025

Future Care series honours the past

Osprey wins the race back for the best nest

Opera North announce new North East dates

North East attractions get their grade card

Bats and bullet holes: artist Luke Jerram on Helios

Animating mental health

Celebrating snooker champion Vera Selby

REVIEW: Pygmalion at the People’s Theatre

Northumberland park pays its part in hailing cup final hero

REVIEW: The Shark is Broken, Theatre Royal

Curated Culture 18.03.25

Joséphine Bowes – a 19th Century fashionista

'It is reasonable to conclude that we now have Geordie dolphins'

River Tyne takes centre stage as Clare Balding jumps in for TV series

Parking idea for future of flyover

REVIEW: London Philharmonic Orchestra at The Glasshouse

Culture Digest 14.03.25

Timely exhibition highlights complex motherhood

Artists highlight North East & Ukraine shared heritage

Quirky and colourful exhibitions not to miss

Pit village aiming for the world stage

Ian Shaw on Jaws and playing his dad

Curated Culture 11.03.25

The MOBOs - what next?

Review: Rupture, Live Theatre Studio, Newcastle

Newcastle launch for spellbinding show

REVIEW: The Flying Dutchman, Theatre Royal

Culture Digest 07.03.25

Night Classes back by popular demand

Howay The Lasses sing for Mary (and more)

Jenni Fagan’s Ootlin wins Gordon Burn Prize

Coal Town photos to be Woodhorn attraction

Banging theatre show is beating a path to Tyneside

REVIEW: Hangmen at the People’s Theatre

Curated Culture 04.03.25

A month in Classics: March

Tyneside date stirs memories for rock legend

Forum Cinema fundraiser to secure Hexham treasure's art deco appeal

Berwick Parade wows audiences

Culture Digest 28.02.25

Sam Fender’s new album People Watching tops UK charts and makes history

BRILLIANT scheme launched for Lumiere

Sporting auction set to be gripping

Multi-million-pound boost for Berwick Barracks project

Inspirational women at Town Hall

Celebrating the piano in style

Dani – future champion of the world?

How Corbridge could have been capital of the North East

Really into the weeds

Live's season springs into life

Max Roberts on Peter Straughan

Curated Culture 25.02.25

New Durham art gallery a step closer

Introducing Lort Burn Specials

Winning hearts and minds at Tyneside Cinema

Culture Digest 21.02.25

What’s in a name? Tyneside sale has a valuable answer

Funding boost for arts and cash-strapped museums

New season signals new era at Alphabetti

Coalfield creativity at Beamish

Crafting a cinema for everyone

Prepare for a puppet invasion!

Newcastle fixture for footy drama Dear England

Alnwick Story Fest exhibition celebrates the everyday

Academic is standing up for the planet

New home for ospreys at Kielder

'Extraordinary' fundraising effort preserves site for nature

There's another Stanley at Laurels

Review: Champion at Live Theatre, Newcastle

Curated Culture 18.02.25

Why mother languages matter

Record entry for Northumberland Open

Review: Fauré’s Requiem, Royal Northern Sinfonia & Chorus

RTS Awards: Big celebration for the region's small screen winners

Culture Digest 14.01.25

North East RIBA Awards shortlist revealed

Big launch right on track for S&DR Festival

Theatre Royal's Open Door initiative

Imprisoned mams contribute to new play

Full Berwick film fest programme announced

What would Joséphine be collecting now?

Miners' Strike film digs deep

Playing the Pennine Way

Review: Only Fools and Horses the Musical, Newcastle Theatre Royal

MOBO Fringe: Grab the chance to see rising talent on Tyneside

Curated Culture 11.02.25

Review: Top Girls, People’s Theatre, Newcastle

Culture Digest 07.02.25

An invitation for Tees Valley creatives to get connected

Sunday for Sammy celebrates 25th anniversary with big show announcement

Tyneside’s ‘unstoppable’ motivator now in print

North East archaeologist up for national award

Looking for harmony between kittiwakes and their urban neighbours

4,000 year old burial site discovered in Wooler

North East heritage projects lock in funding

Review: The Nutcracker, Scottish Ballet, Theatre Royal

Why playing Del Boy is lovely jubbly

Exploring the lasting fascination with the Byker Wall

North East artist's work is blowing up in China

Curated Culture 04.02.25

A month in classics: February

Monet painting to go on show in South Shields as part of National Gallery tour

Peter Straughan (Oscar nominated again) discusses Conclave

Culture Digest 31.01.25

Dragon’s Den star fronts new series made in Newcastle

Can pottery be an eco-friendly artform?

Partnership to support North TV writers renewed

Stories from behind prison walls form part of Postgraduate Research Conference

Preview: Holly and the Reivers at Gosforth Civic Theatre

National Trust counts the cost of Storm Éowyn

Excavating the present from the future

Exhibition: From Josephine Bowes: Trendsetters and Trailblazers

Northumberland exhibition draws on River Aln

Anglo-Saxon en-suite solves Royal Bayeux Tapestry mystery

Punk shirt parachutes into auction

Curated Culture 29.01.25

Dates confirmed for Lumiere 2025

Culture Digest 24.01.25

Review: Nerys Johnson: Disability and Practice

Call out for sounds of Wearside's past

ClassicsFest returns with new writing challenge

Music City status for Sunderland

Eight artists vie to exhibit at National Trust property

Shortlist revealed for Gordon Burn Prize 2025

Review: Birdsong at Newcastle Theatre Royal

Review: A Celebration of Lionel Tertis

Curated Culture 21.01.25

First MOBO Awards acts announced along with busy Fringe programme

Student exhibition puts climate change in the frame

Grant to explore history of Ballast Hills

When the self-styled 'Greatest' came to the North East

Culture Digest 17.01.25

New season attractions at the People’s

Call out for memories of Muhammad Ali ahead of theatre premiere

Cultural innovations on Tyneside and Wearside win Government funding

Ashington Group anniversary gets film finale

After the Moon comes the Sun to light up an historic building

Memories stirred as Fish Quay tavern lands a lost treasure

Disco rockers High Fade on Tyneside pilgrimage

Delving into a library of lectures

Review: Murder on the Orient Express at Newcastle Theatre Royal

Programme unveiled for North Shields 800

Daily facts from 800 years of history

Curated Culture 14.01.25

Culture digest 10.01.25

Golden Globe winner Peter Straughan due at Tyneside Cinema

Chumps to gather at Stan’s statue for grateful giggles

Sunderland photography lecturer in the frame for Portrait of Britain

Cast announced for Champion at Live Theatre

Rupert Bear finds a place in Durham open art exhibitions

Birdsong - a love story that has changed lives

Tyneside festival gives a platform to the arts and music of the Holocaust

Curated Culture 07.01.25

SDR200 Festival on track for very special year

Celebrating 100 years of sanctuary

Baked in highlights for 2025